Listed below are the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) for Life Science and bullet points for their specific grade band progression.
LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
- Adult plants and animals can have young. In many kinds of animals, parents and the offspring themselves engage in behaviors that help the offspring to survive.
- Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.
- Organisms reproduce, either sexually or asexually, and transfer their genetic information to their offspring.
- Animals engage in characteristic behaviors that increase the odds of reproduction.
- Plants reproduce in a variety of ways, sometimes depending on animal behavior and specialized features for reproduction.
- Genetic factors as well as local conditions affect the growth of the adult plant.
- In multicellular organisms individual cells grow and then divide via a process called mitosis, thereby allowing the organism to grow. The organism begins as a single cell (fertilized egg) that divides successively to produce many cells, with each parent cell passing identical genetic material (two variants of each chromosome pair) to both daughter cells. Cellular division and differentiation produce and maintain a complex organism, composed of systems of tissues and organs that work together to meet the needs of the whole organism.
This is a table of the Disciplinary Core Ideas
of Life Science. If
coming from a Standard the specific bullet point used is highlighted
and additional performance Expectations that make use of the
Disciplinary Core Idea can be found below the table.
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